Shaun Space Crit: Jessica Watson, Sophie-Anne Mitchenson and Caitlin Daley

This particular crit featured the various works of the students mentioned, Jessica's drawings, Sophie's sculptures and Caitlin's paintings, ensuring that there was a variety of mediums represented through their work.

The work that Jessica presented was a series of drawings that were all based around the figure of the head, in terms of their appearance, the heads were androgynous. They appeared to have little emotion conveyed through their features and all shared a similar style in the way that they were constructed. I was quite fond of this work due to the fact that I work in a similar figurative manner, as well as the fact that a few of them appeared to be continuous line drawings. I would have loved to have seen the heads on a much larger scale, moving away from the small scale that they were originally presented on.

Sophie's series of work were all based around the theme of nature eggs as a shape, it was nice seeing how her work had developed as she had initially started working with actual egg shells and then moved onto felted eggs. I prefer the larger, more exaggerated work that she's been making more recently , the larger scale gives the sculptures more of an inherent sense of importance and presence than the smaller eggs.

The contrast between the stark whiteness of the material of the egg when presented on the grey floor of the space created a brilliant effect of exposing all of the smaller marks and flaws in the floor that you might not have noticed previously.

The paintings that Caitlin decided to display both featured the same artwork and composition, the differences between them, being that the first was on a large, unstretched piece of canvas and the other was a small, mounted canvas on frame. Overall, it was agreed that most people preferred the larger work to the smaller one and I'd have to agree, The unstretched canvas immediately demands your attention and feels more impactful than the smaller pace mainly due to the size. I also prefer the way that the paint has been blended and applied on the larger work. Another reason that the larger scale suits Caitlin's work more is because of the emotional nature of the work, it draws in the viewer even more for them to feel the emotional impact, not unlike a Rothko.